Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Boy 1st Class William Cullum, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (William Cullum); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension as issued, good very fine (2) £350-400

Ex Glendining’s March1951 and Sotheby’s July 1974.

William Cullum was born in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent c.1822. He served as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Gorgon in the actions on and off the coast of Syria in 1840 and gained the rank of Boy 1st Class in May 1841. Sold with copied extract from Gorgon’s Muster Book.